Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life

Plato

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

C.S. Lewis

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank McCourt

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

Gautama Buddha

I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.

Karen Russell

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Mattie Stepanek

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Theodore Bikel

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

Scott Weiland

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

John Green

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Paul Davies